The Cuirie (_Cuirena_) was, as its name implies, originally a defence of leather: it was also made of cloth. It covered the body alone, requiring the addition of _Brachières_ to complete the coat. Thus, in the Roll of Purchases made for the Windsor tournament in the sixth year of Edward I., we have: "De Milōn. le Cuireu͂r (Milo the Currier) xxxiij. quire͂t, p'c pēc iij. _s._" Each took two ells of the cloth called Carda in its construction: "I͂t pro qualibet quiret͂t ij. ul̄n card." The sleeves appear to have been of pourpointerie: "I͂t pro xxxviij. pa͂r brac͂h, x. bukeran̄n[334]." An account cited by Ducange, of the date 1239, has:--"Pro hernesio suo, videlicet baccis et cuireniis suis affecturis IX. lib. v. sol. Item pro tribus baccis et tribus cuirenis ad eosdem, IV. lib. iv. sol." See the glossarists under _Baca_. Guiart also mentions the cuirie:-- "Hyaumes, haubers, tacles, cuiries, Fondent par les grans cops et fraingnent." _Année_ 1268. The Cargan seems to have been a collar or tippet of chain-mail. It occurs as part of a footman's armour in the Statutes of Frejus, A.D. 1233: "Peditem armatum intelligimus armatum scuto et propuncto, seu auspergoto, et cofa seu capello ferreo, et cargan, vel sine cargan," &c. The glossarists derive this and the cognate word, _carcannum_, from καρκίνος, genus vinculi; and, if this derivation is the true one, a gorget of chain-mail may be fairly inferred. Other materials for armour than those mentioned above appear during the thirteenth century; but, before noticing these, it may be well to take a glance at the remaining _parts_ of the knightly suit as they occur in the usual monuments of the time; then to examine the appendages which are attached to the body-armour, as the ailettes; after which we will notice the exceptional materials employed for defensive purposes; and lastly, those portions of the warrior's equipment which have not been included in the above scheme of investigation. The Chausses, in the early part of the thirteenth century were entirely of chain-mail, covering the whole leg; as shewn in our woodcuts, No. 46, 52, and 54. Sometimes they were tightened below the knee with a lace, as in the two Salisbury effigies (Stothard, Plates XVII. and XXX., and our woodcut, No. 54.) A variety of this defence was laid on the front part of the leg, and then laced up behind. See woodcut, No. 53, from Harl. MS. 5102, fol. 32, a book of the early part of the century; and our numbers 56 and 62, towards the close of this period. Compare also Plates XXXIII. of Hefner, Plate LIV. of Strutt's Horda, and folio 10 of Roy. MS. 12, F. XIII.